Leviticus 18:19
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New International Version (©2011)
"'Do not approach a woman to have sexual relations during the uncleanness of her monthly period.

New Living Translation (©2007)
"Do not have sexual relations with a woman during her period of menstrual impurity.

English Standard Version (©2001)
“You shall not approach a woman to uncover her nakedness while she is in her menstrual uncleanness.

New American Standard Bible (©1995)
'Also you shall not approach a woman to uncover her nakedness during her menstrual impurity.

King James Bible (Cambridge Ed.)
Also thou shalt not approach unto a woman to uncover her nakedness, as long as she is put apart for her uncleanness.

Holman Christian Standard Bible (©2009)
You are not to come near a woman during her menstrual impurity to have sexual intercourse with her.

International Standard Version (©2012)
"You are not to approach a menstruating woman to have sexual relations with her.

NET Bible (©2006)
"'You must not approach a woman in her menstrual impurity to have sexual intercourse with her.

GOD'S WORD® Translation (©1995)
"Never have sexual intercourse with a woman while she is unclean during her monthly period.

King James 2000 Bible (©2003)
Also you shall not approach unto a woman to uncover her nakedness, as long as she is put apart for her uncleanness.

American King James Version
Also you shall not approach to a woman to uncover her nakedness, as long as she is put apart for her uncleanness.

American Standard Version
And thou shalt not approach unto a woman to uncover her nakedness, as long as she is impure by her uncleanness.

Douay-Rheims Bible
Thou shalt not approach to a woman having her flowers, neither shalt thou uncover her nakedness.

Darby Bible Translation
And thou shalt not approach a woman in the separation of her uncleanness to uncover her nakedness.

English Revised Version
And thou shalt not approach unto a woman to uncover her nakedness, as long as she is impure by her uncleanness.

Webster's Bible Translation
Also thou shalt not approach to a woman to uncover her nakedness, as long as she is put apart for her uncleanness.

World English Bible
"'You shall not approach a woman to uncover her nakedness, as long as she is impure by her uncleanness.

Young's Literal Translation
'And unto a woman in the separation of her uncleanness thou dost not draw near to uncover her nakedness.

Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary

18:1-30 Unlawful marriages and fleshly lusts. - Here is a law against all conformity to the corrupt usages of the heathen. Also laws against incest, against brutal lusts, and barbarous idolatries; and the enforcement of these laws from the ruin of the Canaanites. God here gives moral precepts. Close and constant adherence to God's ordinances is the most effectual preservative from gross sin. The grace of God only will secure us; that grace is to be expected only in the use of the means of grace. Nor does He ever leave any to their hearts' lusts, till they have left him and his services.

Pulpit Commentary

Verse 19. - The marriage restrictions having been laid down, there follows in the five next verses the prohibition of five sexual impurities unconnected with marriage except by their subject-matter. The first is to approach unto a woman to uncover her nakedness, as long as she is put apart for her uncleanness, that is, either for seven days at the time of her ordinary illnesses (Leviticus 15:19), or any longer time that her illness might last (Leviticus 15:25), or for forty days after the birth of a man child (chapter 12:2-4), or for eighty days after the birth of a girl (Leviticus 12:5). The penalty for the offense within the seven days is death if committed willfully (Leviticus 20:18); if fallen into unknowingly, a ceremonial penalty of seven days' uncleanness is incurred (Leviticus 15:24). It is twice referred to by Ezekiel as a gross sin (Ezekiel 18:6; Ezekiel 22:10).

Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

Also thou shall not approach unto a woman,.... Not even a man to his own wife, and much less to another woman:

to uncover her nakedness, as long as she is put apart for her uncleanness; in her monthly courses; and the time of her separation from her husband on that account was seven days, Leviticus 15:19; if a man lay with a woman when in such circumstances, they were both to be cut off from their people, Leviticus 20:18; and such an action is reckoned among sins, and uncleanness of the worst sort, Ezekiel 22:10.

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Unlawful Sexual Relations
…18Neither shall you take a wife to her sister, to vex her, to uncover her nakedness, beside the other in her life time. 19Also you shall not approach to a woman to uncover her nakedness, as long as she is put apart for her uncleanness. 20Moreover you shall not lie carnally with your neighbor's wife, to defile yourself with her. …

Leviticus 12:2 "Say to the Israelites: 'A woman who becomes pregnant and gives birth to a son will be ceremonially unclean for seven days, just as she is unclean during her monthly period.
Leviticus 15:24 "'If a man has sexual relations with her and her monthly flow touches him, he will be unclean for seven days; any bed he lies on will be unclean.
Leviticus 18:18 "'Do not take your wife's sister as a rival wife and have sexual relations with her while your wife is living.
Leviticus 20:18 "'If a man has sexual relations with a woman during her monthly period, he has exposed the source of her flow, and she has also uncovered it. Both of them are to be cut off from their people.
2 Samuel 11:4 Then David sent messengers to get her. She came to him, and he slept with her. (Now she was purifying herself from her monthly uncleanness.) Then she went back home.
Ezekiel 22:10 In you are those who dishonor their father's bed; in you are those who violate women during their period, when they are ceremonially unclean.